Course Studies 2017 in North Carolina USA. Our Mission "The English as a Second Language Program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is committed to providing support, intensive English language instruction, and various American cultural experiences to students that are learning English as a second language, which will empower them to become successful students in the mainstream classroom and productive members of the community." ESL Program Features The academic curriculum focuses on all areas of language acquisition: reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar/structure, and culture. Overall, we focus primarily on speaking and listening skills, which most students lack, while also sharpening skills in the other areas. TOEFL Preparation is an important part of our program. Depending on the number of students enrolled in a specific semester, we generally have 3 or 4 levels of courses. There are 20 hours of class per week. Speaking and Listening Speaking and Listening is an important aspect of improving both fluency and accuracy. Pronunciation is a special focus and individual attention is given to each student. Oral presentations are required and students are expected to work with Power Point. There are discussions and many conversation topics in this course. TOEFL Prep/Grammar The focus is on grammar, structure, and getting students prepared for the TOEFL exam, depending on which level the students place into. Practice tests and quizzes are given so that students can see their strengths and weaknesses. Parts of the course are often held in the computer lab. Since UNCW uses the iBT... [-]

About Our Program INTERLINK Language Centers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) has been helping students achieve their personal and professional goals since 1997. Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, INTERLINK offers intensive English instruction, academic preparation, and cross-cultural orientation for students, scholars, and professionals on a year-round basis. The program prepares students for challenging careers, and provides the tools and skills needed to achieve success in the 21st century. Upon graduation, many students go on to study in academic programs at UNCG or other area universities. INTERLINK helps with university placement and conditional admission to assure a successful and memorable educational experience in the United States. INTERLINK’s curriculum is rigorous. Its six levels, offered in 9-week sessions, involve in- and out-of class assignments in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and projects which require active student participation. Students enjoy full access to university facilities, including opportunities to meet students and professors, audit or take classes for credit. Program field trips enable students to learn first hand about the state and local community. Of particular benefit to students is the representation of many cultures in the program. In a diverse environment, students learn more about the world, and in the process, about themselves. Academically qualified students enjoy the convenience of receiving conditional admission prior to starting their language program at INTERLINK. At INTERLINK, we strive to assure a memorable and transformative educational experience for international students. If you are looking for an English as a Second Language program, especially if... [-]

Course Studies 2017 in North Carolina USA. WE TRAIN YOU AS AN APPRENTICE (EXTERN) INSIDE A REAL RADIO STATION OR MEDIA COMPANY! When you are accepted into our program, you will apprentice (extern) inside a real radio station, TV station or other media outlet in the location where you live (or another locale, if you so choose). You receive private, one-on-one instruction from a vastly experienced broadcast professional. This person is actually making a living in broadcasting. You will follow our structured course curriculum. You will receive homework. You will receive plenty of hands-on training in the studio. With our unique program, you do not spend one single day in a classroom! The radio station or media company is your “classroom”, and a real radio professional is your teacher and mentor. You will be the only student in the class! At the Radio Connection, you will be gaining a lot more experience than just how to work at a radio station. When you train one-on-one with a broadcasting professional, you'll learn communications skills that can transfer you into many different realms of broadcasting, from radio to television, and even the growing field of Internet streaming and YouTube hosting. Our comprehensive curriculum covers everything you need to become a 21st-century broadcasting professional. It's also why our curriculum is flexible to fit your goals and interests, whether you want to be a radio DJ, voiceover talent, news anchor, sportscaster, or even host your own Internet show! The best thing about the Radio... [-]

With a focus on consumers and delivering value, marketing is an exciting field of business that stimulates lateral thinking and creativity. Likewise, supply chain management has become increasingly significant as firms recognize the importance of aligning a firm's supply chain and production system with how a firm strategically competes in the global marketplace. Both areas of study are housed in ECU's Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management. The concentration in marketing at ECU provides students with the insight needed to identify marketing opportunities, develop appropriate strategies, and put them into action. Many students with a concentration in marketing have gone on to successful careers in the fields of advertising, sales management, business marketing, research, distribution, retail management, product planning, services, and international marketing. The concentration in operations and supply chain management (OSCM) prepares students for careers in the areas of sourcing, operations, and logistics. Graduates in OSCM have career choices as managers of purchasing, distribution, inventory, logistics, operations, quality, and supply chains. The OSCM curriculum also prepares graduates to sit for the Certified Purchasing Manager examination. [-]

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As a human resource professional, you are in charge more than you know.Today's competitive business landscape means that your role has expanded. The best and most successful human resource professionals learn early on how to gain and use influence to become more of a strategic partner, to determine where the organization is headed and to use the human resources function to guide the way.The best learn how to coach others, to help them tap into their own motivation and come up with ideas and solutions on their own, rather than being told what to do and how to do it - over and over again.Coaching for Human Resource Professionals can help you get there.This program helps you strengthen your own leadership skills and learn how to build the coaching relationship to develop the skills of others. Using the Center's framework of assessment, challenge and support, you will work intensively with a coach, one-to-one and in small groups. Multiple videotaped coaching sessions allow you to more closely examine your coaching style and abilities, learn new skills and effectively build a climate for coaching within your organization.Developed through a collaboration between CCL and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)... [-]

Overview

The rules of effective leadership change when entering the global environment of virtual communication, cultural differences, and conflicting needs and requirements. This action-oriented experience offers techniques for managing people from different cultures in order to work together more effectively on a day-to-day basis. Based on a behavioral simulation that takes place at multiple sites in real time, it provides an opportunity to practice new skills in a realistic setting with colleagues from around the world.

 

Outcomes

At the conclusion of this experience, you will be able to:

Explore the implications of your actions and how they impact the business Enhance your ability to navigate your organization's international strategies by developing a global mind-set Gain insight into how others perceive your effectiveness as a global leader Learn how to discern the impact of individual characteristics and societal cultures on work and at work Practice applying leadership tools and frameworks to deal with the complexity of global leadership challenges ... [-]

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The farther up the corporate ladder you are, the harder it gets.But sometimes, no matter how long you have been at it, you find a challenge before you that is more complicated than anything you have ever seen.Maybe you are a CEO in the middle of a merger - and you need to find a way to bring two cultures together. Maybe you are the head of a pharmaceutical company that is bringing a new drug to market. Or maybe you are a physician heading up a large research grant for a university.You have to bring other people into the picture to find a way.You need Navigating Complex Challenges. This program provides leaders with the skills and strategies to tackle complex business challenges that have no clearly identified solution. Over the course of 12 weeks, including three days in the classroom, you will address your own complex challenge, your leadership role in navigating the challenge, and techniques for managing the challenge within the context of your organization.... [-]

This program is custom-designed for delivery to organizations. The Center also offers an a open-enrollment version of Coaching for Development.

 

Coaching for Development is a classroom-based, custom-designed program for delivery to organizations, and can be offered to all levels from first-line managers to senior executives. The program effectively builds coaching skills for the organization's leaders, enhances initiatives aimed at managing change, and fosters a climate of organizational learning. The program can teach coaching skills to a general audience, or can be targeted to the organization's internal coaches in the human resources and organization development areas. An important goal of this program is for the organization to become more self-sustaining in developing its leaders internally.... [-]

Program Description

Dynamic Management is a unique blend of academic research, practical knowledge and improvisation techniques that creates a powerful learning experience.  This program improves overall management and leadership skills by training participants to benefit from intuitive judgment, leverage available resources and act in the moment.  Participants refine their abilities to respond to unanticipated challenges, promote innovation and creative problem solving, build trust and teamwork, and foster better communication.

Duke faculty teach applied management theory through lectures, readings, case studies and group discussions. Chicago's top improvisation professionals lead interactive sessions that blend traditional improv exercises with applied business simulations.... [-]

Program Description

The Duke Leadership Program: A Multiple Domain Approach equips participants to address diverse situations with a comprehensive approach to leadership.  Drawing on research from many fields including organizational behavior, sociology, psychology and political science, the program will help you systemize your intuitive leadership skills in an intense and supportive environment.

The program uses a personalized method for helping participants develop their competencies in six domains of leadership.  Central to the course is a 360-degree assessment tool to be completed in advance of the program by participants' colleagues.  Participants leave the program with a personalized plan for successful leadership that can be implemented immediately.... [-]

Program Description

Duke's Advanced Management Program (AMP) provides senior executives with frameworks for creating and overseeing the execution of new strategies and initiatives.  The program focuses on new tools and approaches to business challenges, helping executives move their businesses to the next level.  They will return to work with a better understanding of business possibilities, a creative set of options for making improvements, and a personal action plan.

Our unique split-schedule format ensures that executives are away from work and family for only two weeks at a time.  The program is conducted in two, two-week sessions, with approximately one month between sessions.... [-]

This research-driven model of coaching is a custom-built, one-on-one developmental experience for the mid- to senior-level executive who is preparing for a greater scope of responsibility or who needs to make a leap forward in leadership capability. Executive Leadership Coaching provides a complete discovery, alignment, assessment, feedback and coaching package. It can be engaged along with another CCL program or as a stand-alone leadership development opportunity.

 

 

Format

A custom assessment package that typically includes personality and style surveys, 360-degree feedback instruments and telephone interviews with selected work colleagues. In-person feedback and goal-setting sessions. May include a boss-alignment session between the coach, coachee, and the supervisor to cement agreement on developmental goals. Ongoing coaching utilizing a variety of media that could include: telephone, in-person, video, or on-line contact. On-site observations - shadowing - can be included in the assessment or coaching phase. ... [-]

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Have you been challenged - or challenged yourself - to create a system that develops leaders for your organization? Can you get your senior leadership team on board? Developing Leadership Talent shows you how to create development systems that link directly to your organizational goals. Many businesses and government agencies have benefited from our experience in discovering the best ways that leaders can be developed -- and then putting what they've learned into practice.

 

Your organization can, too.

 

 

Outcomes

As a participant, you will:

Develop a systemic approach that links leadership development with key business strategies and goals. Learn to implement success factors in executive development through our model of assessment, challenge and support. Identify competencies that will aid the organization in meeting its business needs. Benchmark best practices from organizations CCL has worked with or studied. Develop an actionable plan mapping out what needs to be developed, who needs to be developed, and how development will be implemented and evaluated. ... [-]

Every business or organization begins and ends with people - and that's where you come in.Today's competitive marketplace requires human resource professionals to have an expanded role in the organization due to increasing importance of social and relationship capital. Your challenge today is to gain and use influence to become a better strategic partner, to determine where the organization is headed, and to get out in front and use the human resources function to help lead the way.The Leadership Development for Human Resource Professionals program can help you get there.Developed through a collaboration between CCL and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), this program prepares you to become a more effective leader of people and processes. It focuses on self-awareness, proven methods of building leadership skills, and ways you can positively impact the organization's business strategy.... [-]

Course Studies 2017 in North Carolina USA.

Leading a team to effectively accomplish its goals is no easy task. What are your challenges?Think about it. You have to be able to create teams. You have to improve teams that are in place. You have to create the right environment within the organization for teams to grow, to make a solid contribution. You have to provide structure and direction - and you have to be able to identify potential problems early enough to do something about it.Leadership and High-Performance Teams can show you how.Based on our research and using a hands-on approach, you will learn how to form a team, how to figure out what is going on in a team - and most importantly, what you can do differently to make a team more effective. We focus on all aspects of teams, from how a team is launched to the backdrop of conflicting agendas and personalities within the organization that impact the team's performance.When you get back home, you will have the self-awareness, momentum, knowledge and tactics to build a more cohesive, high-performance team - and by extension, a more successful organization. Better yet, you can maximize the impact of your training by bringing up to five members of your team with you.... [-]